Biologists have long known that it’s impossible to stockpile rabbits in the wild. Everything from foxes to hawks, coyotes to humans eats rabbits, and each year somewhere around 80 percent of the furballs die whether they’re shot by us Elmer Fudds or not.[…]
Why carry around binoculars when you have equal or greater magnification capabilities attached to the top of your rifle?[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
I hope you can help me. I have seen references to Bayou Sue on several fishing reports. It is in the Biloxi Marsh area. It was referred to near the Lake Eugene area, which I think is Lake Eugenie.[…]
A stiff easterly breeze pushed the 16-foot aluminum boat briskly across the stunningly beautiful pond.[…]
What would fall be without our annual WMA Forecast?[…]
Flounder take a decidedly noticeable third seat in Louisiana’s inshore fishing preference.[…]
Southwest Louisiana has a special place in my fishing heart. There, on the border estuary of Sabine Lake, guide Chuck Uzzle introduced me to a large harem of speckled trout some six years ago. It was the biggest stringer of gorilla trout I have ever caught — nine fish over 28 inches were released that day.[…]
One of the most important tools in the wetland restoration toolbox is river diversions. However, there seems to be a lot of misinformation and misunderstandings about the role and impacts of river diversions as a restoration tool.[…]
It wasn’t what any sane hunter would call a cool morning, with daybreak temperatures hovering about 72.[…]
The best place for your front fish finder’s transducer is on the bottom of your bow-mounted trolling motor’s lower unit. Until recently, this meant clamping a transducer to the motor and routing its cable up the outside of the motor’s shaft.[…]
Louisiana will really be a “Sportsman’s Paradise” for those outdoorsmen who enjoy the challenge of wing shooting for speedy gray bullets that buzz grain fields in the fall.[…]
Rather than surrendering to the poor fishing conditions, try taking a few electronic-gizmo-jaded kids to an old bridge or dock for some old-fashioned excitement that may entertain even the most weathered fisherman.[…]
On a recent trip with Capt. Scott Avanzino out of Venice, Frank Genusa Jr. felt he had a good shot at setting a state record on dolphin.[…]
Three notes into the hail call, and they turned. They did a little jig in fact, wagging their wings frantically for a second, then dipping. Looked almost like they’d hit an invisible net.[…]
Blame it on the river.
Summer trout fishing, the passion of thousands of Southeast Louisiana anglers, has been inconsistent. And maybe inconsistent is too nice a word.[…]
Here in Sportsman’s Paradise, we are not without outdoor options during any season of the year. Before an outing, the average outdoorsman has to decide what type of species he’ll fish and where he’ll launch to do it.[…]